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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate
he has made of the (a) amount of time and (b) resources that his Department allocated
to the production of impact assessments on the UK leaving the EU; and on what date
work on those impact assessments started.

<p>Impact Assessments, typically related to specific new primary legislation before
Parliament, are narrowly defined. For example, the Government laid an impact assessment
alongside the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, which can be found on our website.</p><p>
</p><p>Civil servants conduct any Impact Assessments related to legislation as business
as usual. Our broader analysis continues.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the
Government will recognise the partnership formed by local authorities in Lancaster,
the South Lakes and Barrow in Furness to allow that partnership to develop its own
local industrial strategy for the area served by the Morecambe Bay Economic Initiative.

<p>We will work in partnership with places to develop Local Industrial Strategies,
which will be developed locally and agreed with government. We will agree the first
Local Industrial Strategies by March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>As we set out in the Industrial
Strategy White Paper, Local Industrial Strategies will establish new ways of working
between national and local leaders in both the public and private sectors. I have
been encouraged by the enthusiasm local areas have shown for Local Industrial Strategies.
Places in England with a Mayoral Combined Authority will have a single strategy led
by the mayor and supported by Local Enterprise Partnerships. For parts of the country
without a mayor, the development of the strategy will be led by the Local Enterprise
Partnership.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what
reason the Impact Assessment for the Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap)
Bill does not include statistical information on the (a) costs and (b) benefits of
the proposals.

<p>As set out in the Impact Assessment, the costs and benefits will depend on the
detailed methodology the independent regulator Ofgem adopts to set the level of a
tariff cap. The Government does not wish to prejudice the deliberations of Ofgem’s
work in establishing the methodology, and has therefore not included quantified analysis
of the costs and benefits in the Impact Assessment but has included a qualitative
discussion.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for what
reason the Impact Assessment for the Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity (Tariff Cap)
Bill does not include an assessment of the potential merits of not including an appeals
process to the Competition and Markets Authority.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what
reasons his Department's impact assessment on the Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity
(Tariff Cap) Bill does not include an explanation for why it believes that Ofgem will
be able to achieve an acceptable trade-off between the different criteria for setting
the cap.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what
reasons his Department's impact assessment on the Draft Domestic Gas and Electricity
(Tariff Cap) Bill does not include analysis of the impact of the Pre-Payment Cap or
retail price controls elsewhere.

<p>The Impact Assessment sets out clearly the rationale for introducing a cap. Analysis
of the impact of the Pre-Payment Cap and retail price controls elsewhere will be of
most relevance when the methodology for setting the cap is considered by Ofgem, but
the Government will consider what might be relevant to include on this at the final
legislation stage.</p><p> </p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy what steps
his Department is taking to ensure that consumers on default or standard variable
energy tariffs get a fairer deal.

<p>The Government published the draft Domestic Gas &amp; Electricity (Tariff Cap)
Bill which would require Ofgem to impose a tariff cap on domestic standard variable
and default tariffs with some exceptions. The draft Bill is currently undergoing pre-legislative
scrutiny by the BEIS Select Committee.</p>

<p>The Government published the draft Domestic Gas &amp; Electricity (Tariff Cap)
Bill which would require Ofgem to impose a tariff cap on domestic standard variable
and default tariffs with some exceptions. The draft Bill is currently undergoing pre-legislative
scrutiny by the BEIS Select Committee.</p>

<p>The Government is currently exploring how best to encourage businesses to apply
terms and conditions which are jargon free and can be more easily engaged with by
consumers. This includes the use of model terms and conditions.</p>